One view of the meeting between newly appointed Law Minister Zaid Ibrahim and bloggers/journalists is from Chun Wai below. Another is from Rocky.
The impression you get is that Zaid tries. He may be the only person trying in a dysfunctional government, and not very successful at implementing reforms, but he tries.
So what should the journalists and bloggers who are so vocal about demanding freedom of expression do in a situation like this? Be critical and cynical about the man? Or give him their support in the hopes that he is able to make more headway, even as he tries?
Are the majority of journalists and bloggers being constructive or being contented playing the role of aggressive critic and iconoclast?
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Malaysia can be serious, why not? If we have more people in the government who is willing to change their mindset, and work together for the better, it CAN happen.
Press freedom as we see it, more people are being more aware about the issue, and slowly we might see the govt being more lenient in terms of that. Hopefully, Pak Lah (as compared to the more strict TDM) might just do something about it.
the one thing about press freedom is that very often, it is mistaken as ‘no censorship’. There needs to be a certain amount of censorship, though minimal. and i’m not talking about selfish reasons, but filtration of untruths, unconstructive hatred and nudity/profanity. it’s good that malaysia will start to adopt this. it’s about time someone release the press from the grip of tun M.